Everyone should have thought about it once, "Wouldn't it be fun to go back to the past with technology and knowledge of the present age?". Unlike other time travel stories, the Connecticut Yankee in king Arthur's Court, the protagonist of this novel went to the 6th century with knowledge of present age and tried to reform the past society to better society. In "Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's Court", Mark Twain utilized 19th century background and medieval England to convey his criticism about slavery, social class, and idealism.
First, Mark Twain criticized about how slavery system still existed until 19th century and it never changed since 6th century. "It reminded me of a time thirteen centuries away, when the "poor whites"of our South two were always despised and frequently insulted by the slave-lords around them" (Twain 363). This quote used
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Hank, the main protagonist of this novel unexpectedly became slave, he experienced the slave of life and saw slaves were badly and brutally treated to their slave-lords in 6th century. However, at the same time Twain also criticized the slavery system that were still committed in 19th century. The slavery system had emerged between 4th and 6th centuries and most of people were slaves because early societies did not have any ideas of freedom. Gradually, people were awarded the benefits of slavery through industrializing and colonizing other countries (Digital History 1). In the United States, the slavery system had began with "arrival of Africans slaves to British colony Jamestown, Virginia, in 1659" (National Geographic). Ever Since, in the United States, the slavery system had been ongoing until